1. Arundel's Attractions - Castle
Because the Aubigny loved ones very first received the castle, changes have been produced
and the castle has been re-structured to satisfy the demands of the nobility at the existing
time.
In 1139, the Empress Matilda was invited to remain at Arundel for some time throughout her
travel to press her state to the English throne on Stephen. The stone flats constructed to
accommodate the Empress and her entourage endure to this working day.
In 1176, William d'Aubigny died and Arundel Castle then reverted to the crown, underneath
Henry II, who spent a large sum of money re-structuring the developing, generally for home-
based needs. When Henry died, the castle remained in the possession of Richard I ("the
Lionheart"), who made available it to the Aubigny family line underneath William III comte de
Sussex. The final in the Aubigny male line was Hugh, who died at a younger age in 1243.
When his sister Isabel wed John FitzAlan of Clun, the castle and earldom had been turned
more than to him. The FitzAlan family appreciated an uninterrupted hereditary line till 1580.
Upon the dying of the seventh Earl in 1272, Arundel Castle and the earldom passed to his
five-year-old son Richard. 13 several years later, Edward I granted Richard the correct to
keep two fairs per 12 months at the castle as nicely as the electrical power to collect taxes.
This grant supplied funding for the much needed renovation of the castle, which, by this time,
experienced fallen into disrepair. As soon as sufficient cash had been obtainable, FitzAlan
additional the effectively tower and re-made the entrance to the keep. After Richard's loss of
life, his son Edmund was executed for his portion in the rebel against Edward II. Arundel
subsequently handed to the 6th son of Edward I who was also executed. The castle and titles
handed again to the FitzAlans 4 several years afterwards.
The tenth Earl, Richard, fought with Edward III and the Black Prince. FitzAlan was also
dependable for the developing of the FitzAlan Chapel, constructed posthumously according
to his will.
The eleventh Earl, Richard, was handled harshly by Richard II. At the funeral of the Queen
Anne, the Earl was crushed for arriving late and asking to go away early. Richard II at some
point grew tired of his treachery and executed the Earl ahead of confiscating his property.
Arundel was provided by the crown to John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, but when he was
executed by Henry IV, Arundel was returned to the FitzAlan line as soon as again. The up
coming earl, Thomas, married the daughter of John of Portugal. The couple sooner or later
grew to become the initial members of the FitzAlan family to be buried in the chapel
developed by Richard FitzAlan, the tenth Earl.
The FitzAlan line ceased when Mary FitzAlan, daughter of the nineteenth earl, married
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk. The crown seized Arundel upon his execution for

2. conspiring to marry Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1572. The castle was later on returned to his
heirs, the successor Earls of Arundel.
Right after the authentic building commissioned by Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Arundel, a
shell keep was extra to the leading of the motte in about 1140, and curtain partitions, a
chapel and a garden, probably England’s very first Royal backyard in England, were added
by King Henry II. British Castles